"Crafting involves
making connections. Sometimes we connect with ourselves."

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Expressing the innate drive to create is deeply satisfying. Since
the earliest days humanity has spent time not only to make the
objects around us useful, but beautiful
as well. The decorations on everyday tools, clothing, dwellings,
and personal adornments are the most direct way to express our
cultural identity - as well as identify with
it from the inside. Folk art touches us at a deeply personal
level; it says ‘yes’ to our basic artistic yearnings. It also
acts as the linking mechanism between generations, skills passed
down from grandparent through parent to child. The traditions
connect us to the people who taught us and the ones we’re going
to teach.

Folk art traditions have always evolved.
Now in the digital age, the way they are being passed on is also
changing. In these days of global connections, identity is
becoming less a question of geography and more an expression of
choice. We no longer are limited to passing the traditions from
one single person to the next but can distribute the knowledge on
a global scale.